[Conference_dev] Conference Governance / Indico

[Paul Ramsey]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Paul - perhaps you could describe how you would like to see things handled?

- OSGEO, as the organization carrying the financial risk, will have the 
main responsibility for making sure things don't get "out of hand", by 
approving large expenditures and reviewing current budget and statements 
from the organizer regularly.
- As the people doing the work, I assume the local conference committee 
and myself as chair will make most of the remaining decisions.

- The details of which workshops get selected and which talks get chosen:
o Workshops should be strategically chosen to maximize interested 
attendance, and have to be chosen early, before major marketing (because 
workshops are a component of registration), so they should be chosen by 
a "workshop group" which will also have the fun task of making sure they 
are organized and technically provisioned.
o Talks will be chosen by the incoming attendees, using a ranking 
system, thereby (a) letting us know which ones to take and (b) which 
ones are really popular and need big rooms.

- "Systems". The conference organizer already has a registration system 
they are comfortable with, I see no benefit in changing that for 
philosophical reasons. I plan on handling the talks myself, since a few 
hundred records of database material is not overwhelming.

P.